A Meissen porcelain group 'Der stürmische Liebhaber'
A Meissen porcelain group 'Der stürmische Liebhaber'
A rare group depicted on a base encrusted with foliage and flowers. The lady is shown turning away from the advances of the genteman kneeling to her right, accompanied by a small winged putto / Cupid above and the particularly finely painted figure of Harlequin behind. Unmarked, unglazed base. With various minor restorations, the lady's head reattached, the toes and the bow in Cupid's hand lost. H 17.2, W 17.8, D 13.4 cm.
The model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1740, produced in the 1740s.
Provenance
Auctioned by Christie's Geneva, 30th April 1975, lot 136.
Collection of Marian and Michael Sabee.
Auctioned by Sotheby's New York on 24th May 2007, lot 388.
Literature
A further group illustrated in cat. Triumph der blauen Schwerter. Meissener Porzellan für Adel und Bürgertum 1710 - 1815, Dresden-Leipzig 2010, no. 351. Therein an excerpt from Kaendler's workshop records as of 1740: "1. [Groupgen] dergl. aus 4 Figuren bestehend, da eine Schäferin auf Rasen sizt, zu der sich ein sauber angekleideter Jüngling findet, der sie lieben will, die sich aber weigert, auf dem Jüngling ist Cupido, der ihn bey den Haaren hält, und ihn mit seinen Bogen auf den Kopff prügelt, dabey ein Arleqvin stehe, und den Jüngling auslacht, 12 Thlr." (transcribed by Johannes Rafael, Keramos 203/204/2009, p. 47, no. 21).
Cf. also Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture, Yale University Press 2011, p. 306, showing two versions of the group and suggesting a production date for the model of 1743 due to the presence of a model number. There are other versions of the group with either a dog or a sheep on the base and in which either Cupid or Harlequin are not featured. An example with the sheep was formerly housed in the collection of Jörg Nelte, which was auctioned by Christie's London on 12th October 1995 as lot 46.
Cf. also the example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss collection in Menzhausen/Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert, Basel 1993, p. 150 f.
Cf. also Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge 1956, fig. 102, pl. 66.
A further model published in cat. Hidden Valuables. Early-Period Meissen Porcelains from Swiss Private Collections, Munich-Stuttgart 2020, no. 170.
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A Meissen porcelain group 'Der stürmische Liebhaber'
A rare group depicted on a base encrusted with foliage and flowers. The lady is shown turning away from the advances of the genteman kneeling to her right, accompanied by a small winged putto / Cupid above and the particularly finely painted figure of Harlequin behind. Unmarked, unglazed base. With various minor restorations, the lady's head reattached, the toes and the bow in Cupid's hand lost. H 17.2, W 17.8, D 13.4 cm.
The model by Johann Joachim Kaendler, 1740, produced in the 1740s.
Provenance
Auctioned by Christie's Geneva, 30th April 1975, lot 136.
Collection of Marian and Michael Sabee.
Auctioned by Sotheby's New York on 24th May 2007, lot 388.
Literature
A further group illustrated in cat. Triumph der blauen Schwerter. Meissener Porzellan für Adel und Bürgertum 1710 - 1815, Dresden-Leipzig 2010, no. 351. Therein an excerpt from Kaendler's workshop records as of 1740: "1. [Groupgen] dergl. aus 4 Figuren bestehend, da eine Schäferin auf Rasen sizt, zu der sich ein sauber angekleideter Jüngling findet, der sie lieben will, die sich aber weigert, auf dem Jüngling ist Cupido, der ihn bey den Haaren hält, und ihn mit seinen Bogen auf den Kopff prügelt, dabey ein Arleqvin stehe, und den Jüngling auslacht, 12 Thlr." (transcribed by Johannes Rafael, Keramos 203/204/2009, p. 47, no. 21).
Cf. also Chilton, Harlequin Unmasked: The Commedia dell'Arte and Porcelain Sculpture, Yale University Press 2011, p. 306, showing two versions of the group and suggesting a production date for the model of 1743 due to the presence of a model number. There are other versions of the group with either a dog or a sheep on the base and in which either Cupid or Harlequin are not featured. An example with the sheep was formerly housed in the collection of Jörg Nelte, which was auctioned by Christie's London on 12th October 1995 as lot 46.
Cf. also the example in the Pauls-Eisenbeiss collection in Menzhausen/Karpinski, In Porzellan verzaubert, Basel 1993, p. 150 f.
Cf. also Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain Faience and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge 1956, fig. 102, pl. 66.
A further model published in cat. Hidden Valuables. Early-Period Meissen Porcelains from Swiss Private Collections, Munich-Stuttgart 2020, no. 170.
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